Purchased from: Manufacturer
Street Price: $75 USD + shipping
About:
Lazy B Cigar Box Guitars is a Manufacturer of handcrafted, American-built electric cigar box guitars.
This 3 string model has a Drew Estate cedar cigar box for a resonator with finger jointed corners and a fretless poplar neck with oak fingerboard.
Hardware:
Open gear folk type tuners with white pearloid knobs, the guitar hardware is actual hardware! Eye bolt for bridge and carriage bolt for nut.
Electronics:
Piezo acoustic pickup (can be used with a signal booster for greater output)
This guitar has open E tuning and is meant to be used with a slide.
Sound
Amp used
Fishman SA220
Cables used:
Mogami
Acoustic/plugged in:
It sounded like a cigar box slide guitar there is no other way to describe it other than hillbilly banjo-ish.
Impression:
Impression:
This thing is a blast to play. I felt like I was in the woods in Kentucky waiting on the mash to ferment in my still while keeping a lookout for the law. I used a glass slide (beer bottle) and it sounded great. It took some getting used to but once I got the hang of it the guitar was easy to play. The best part was that the nut was a real nut, like from the hardware store. It made me think of how the cigar box guitar started out. The earliest illustrated proof of a cigar box instrument known is an etching copyrighted in 1876 of two Civil War Soldiers at a campsite with one playing a cigar box fiddle. It just shows that if your love for music is there you will use whatever you have to make your instrument. With that said if I found myself without and guitar (just the thought of that makes me sad) and I needed to make one with anything I could find, I would want it to to be like this one.
What I would change:
Not a damn thing!
My advice:
This is not a novelty guitar, it is a playable instrument. It's not a Les Paul or a Strat but a good example of old fashioned American ingenuity. Pour a shot of white lighting, sit on the porch and play.
Posted 04/2012
